Ethics Quotes

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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite… — Alasdair MacIntyre
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he… — Immanuel Kant
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs.… — Derek Parfit
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be… — Derek Parfit
I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do. — Charlie Crist
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right,… — Thomas Reid
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. — Thomas Reid
In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if… — Thomas Reid
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long,… — Eric Clapton
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. — Robert Ardrey
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide… — Unknown Author
Honest people have no ethics — Unknown Author
Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the… — John C. Maxwell
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet… — Mahatma Gandhi
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to… — Graeme Samuel
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring — Soren Kierkegaard
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad… — Aristotle

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